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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: A Golden Cello Decade: 1878-1888, Allen Michie, Alpha, Amanda Forsythe, Apollo's Fire, Avie, Barbara Hannigan, Beams, Camerata RCO, Connie Shih, Dan Costa, Drew Hart, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Heavenly Bach, Hyperion, In Sickness: A Memoir, Paul Hillier, Post Hill Press, Queen, rock, Sagging Meniscus Press, Sehnsucht, Six Moon Hill, Steven Isserlis, The Architects Collaborative, The Miracle Collector’s Edition, This is the Afterlife, Vespers & Complete All-Night Vigil

June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: " Opera Rara, Alexandre Kantorow, Bianco e Falliero, Carry Me Home, Ermione, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hahn: Poèmes & Valses, Harvard University Press, Herbert Blomstedt, Hyperion, Jason M. Rubin, John Higgs, Kendall Square, La donna del lago, Levon Helm, Mavis Staples, MIT Press, Ninja Thyberg, Not Thinking Like a Liberal, Pavel Kolesnikov, Pleasure, Raymond Geuss, Reynaldo Hahn, Robert Buderi, Rossini, Seagull Press, Tapiola Sinfonietta, William Blake vs. The World

Album Review: William Bolcom’s Complete Rags — Fantastically Inventive and Rigorous

This is the definitive recording of William Bolcom’s rags, complete or excerpted: a triumph for the pianist and the composer – as well as a grandly spirited, accessible, inventive journey for any who care to join them on it.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, Jonathan Blumhofer, Marc-Andre Hamelin, William Bolcom, William Bolcom’s Complete Rags

Listening During Covid, Part 9: Intriguing New Works and New-Sounding C. P. E. Bach

A varied buffet of fresh musical experiences from recent decades and from the mid-1700s.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amanda Harberg, Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, Hyperion, Innova, James Freeman, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Paul Cohen, Ralph P. Locke, Ravello, Robert Freeman, Robert Sibbing, Soprano Summit

Classical Music CD Review: Hensel & Mendelssohn String Quartets

This is an album of real spirit and vigor, a mix of the thoughtful and the exciting, all bracingly recorded.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, The Takács Quartet

November Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Angela-Hewitt, BR Klassik, Bright Shiny Things, Glenn, Glenn Rifkin, Hannah Collins, Hannah Kendall, Henry Beston, Huntington Theater Company, Hyperion, Joann Green Breuer, Jonathan Blumhofer, Lisa Fischer, Love songs, Phoenix, Resonance Line, Resonance Lines, Riccardo Muti, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Stewart Goodyear, Susan Miron, The Outermost House, Witch

Classical Album Review: The Nash Ensemble — Bruch’s Chamber Music

One could hardly ask for more persuasive Bruch advocacy than what the Nash Ensemble offers here.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, Jonathan Blumhofer, Nash Ensemble

Classical CD Review: György Ligeti’s “Études” — Well Played and Clearly Lived In

Throughout these Études, Driver’s playing marries tonal warmth with textural precision.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Danny Driver, Etudes, György Ligeti, Hyperion

Listening During Covid, Part 4: Fascinating Vocal Adventures from Different Times and Places

I may be in quarantine, but music can transport me back to the Middle Ages, or to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia, or, via Donizetti, to an imagined India.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, ATMA Classique, Donizetti, Guillaume de Machaut, Hyperion, Il paria, Karina Gauvin, Ralph P. Locke, The Orlando Consort

Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID — Beethoven’s Jesus, Liszt’s Variations on “Norma,” and Janáček’s Animal Opera

Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, LSO Live, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Ralph P. Locke, Simon Rattle’, The Cunning Little Vixen.

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